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lifestyle THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2016 OBITUARY Hollywood's 'princess' Carrie Fisher dead at 60 This Nov 13, 1978 file photo shows, from left, Kenny Baker, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, and Mark Hamill during the filming of the CBS-TV special ‘The Star Wars Holiday’ in Los Angeles. — AP/AFP photos fter decades of fast living that her fearless "Star Wars" pouring in soon after news of her death spread on social ing debut "Postcards from the Edge," which she turned into a while filming "Star Wars: Episode IV-A New Hope" in 1976. character Princess Leia would have struggled to keep up media, led by "Star Wars" co-stars Mark Hamill-Luke film of the same name in 1990 starring Meryl Streep and "Carrie was one-of-a-kind-brilliant, original. Funny and emo- Awith, Carrie Fisher died Tuesday following a massive Skywalker in the saga-who initially tweeted that he was "dev- Shirley MacLaine. A talented screenwriter, Fisher has revised tionally fearless. She lived her life bravely... We will all miss her," heart attack. She was 60. The American actress, best-selling astated" and had "no words." numerous scripts, including "Sister Act" (1992), "Outbreak" Ford told AFP in a statement. Fisher was briefly married to author and screenwriter-who suffered from numerous addic- "It's never easy to lose such a vital, irreplaceable member of (1995) and "The Wedding Singer" (1998). She gave various singer/songwriter Paul Simon in the 1980s. Her daughter Billie, tions she later turned into writing gold-was a member of the family, but this is downright heartbreaking," he said later.
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